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Letter "L" » Learning
«Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not»
«A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one»
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
(Educator)
| About:
Education,
Learning
| Keywords:
letters, student, twelve, university
«Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.»
«Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.»
«A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
drawing, drawing room, rooms, thorough
«A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.»
Author: Horace Mann
| About:
Desire,
Learning,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
attempting, cold iron, hammering, inspiring, pupil
«A man should learn to sail in all winds»
«Be slow of tongue and quick of eye»
«A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people»
Author: Will Rogers
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
association, in two ways, learns, reading, smarter, The Association, ways
«Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.»
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